Her family made her this way! They gave her everything she wanted. Nothing was denied. They treated her like the little princess that they knew she was! The problem with treating children like a prncess is that they turn our more like Cinderella's step sisters than Cinderella herself!

I hope that the judge does NOT make her family give her the money that they have saved for college. They should give it to a homeless child before they give it to this selfish little brat.

I did the same with my two boys and got the same responses, Amber. Nice to know that normal people have a normal response to this kind of thing -- disgust.

They seem all to be reading from the same scropt: cookie cutter entitled brats, who dish out abuse and expect undying love. They are just awful - i live in fear of one of my sons marrying someone like that unwittingly.

I do not think that she will be hurting for suitors any time soon though -
she may yet end up on the Housewives of NJ!

That would really be priceless! Where are all those admissions people who profess to care so much about character!!!

She is a student at a parochial school, too - why doesn't the archdiocese send someone to assign her to re-read the 10 commandments? Or to pray for her soul?

I think the key here for children of divorce to consider is that while the father may have paid IF he had remained married to the bio mother, the very fact that they are not married changes a lot of father's financial situations. What looked like a lot of money while daddy was married to bio mom may have quickly turned to a bunch of debt after attorneys fees, child support, alimony, separation of property and debt from the original marriage. In fact the financial hole may be so deep that it takes years to come out of it far after a child turns 18. So while dad may be making decent money just on the appearance of it- looks can be deceiving. Enter a new Sm into the mix who is working and she may feel that she is under no obligation to pay for a step child's higher education especially if she is and has already been subsidizing the family income due to heavy financial obligations the husband has to his first family and or debt incurred from first family. Who can blame a SM for not wanting to take on the cost of higher education?

You also have to consider SM's different family values. Anyone who paid for their own education or a large part of it will not be too sympathetic to an adult child 's education costs if they themselves handled a part or all of their own costs. Therefore there is no reason to resent that a SM doesn't want to fund these costs. As everyone on here states repeatedly. She is not the mother and shouldn't overstep her boundaries. Sm has no voice then SMs hard earned money is also off limits. You can't have it both ways. This even goes for SM having to support the household so daddy can fund college educations for adult children. SM should be within her rights to say NO more.

Adult children may think they know what their parents financial situation is or was but really they don't -especially if their parents are divorced and remarried. Too often adult children want to believe that everything was provided to the new family by daddykins but quite often that simply is just their assumption and doesn't represent the true facts. So unless a adult child handles all of a parents financial affairs they really don't know and should not be so quick to make assumptions about who is supporting the new family. That hourly wage job of SMs may be most of what pays that new family's bills as all of daddy's money is mired in debt and support payments the adult child knows nothing about.

I also wonder why if college support was in the divorce decree why your mother is blameless in this? Why didn't mom pursue this for you and why aren't you mad at her for not doing so. Why blame the SM? She owed nothing. It just seems to me that adult children in most of these similar type posts are always looking to dad for clollege funding yet mom seems to get a free pass.

Sorry I had one other comment. You stated and I paraphrase " people who just shaft their children because they are selfish could probably use some legal intervention,,,,,". ????? I was not aware that not paying for an adult child's education amounted to shafting them. If parents have always stressed to a child that it was their responsibility to get and keep scholarships, jobs etc to enable them to attend the college of their choice, then the child is raised knowing they bear that responsibility. That teaches a child responsibility and gives a child self respect and self reliance- all good qualities that will serve them well the rest of their lives.

It is not the end of the world for a child to have to pay to better their own future and most financial advisors will tell people to put their money into retirement funds as opposed to saving for their children's educations. Why? Because there are so many ways to pay for college and No alternatives to pay for your living expenses and care when you can no longer work. This is a hard reality and in no way indicates that one is selfish -cause if it does then the majority of financial advisors are telling the american pvublic to be just that -selfish.